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Something that wasn't very healthy, but if by starving you mean that the child would just be missing a meal for a couple of hours I might consider just waiting. It depends on how long it would be before they could eat again and what the choice of the unhealthy food was.

WOW...i would definetly give my child something unhealthy instead of letting them starve. My youngest son was in the less than 1% on the charts. He was only 12 pounds at 7 months old. We are trying to find out if it is genetic or for some other reason. He was diagnosed with Failure to Thrive and it broke my heart. He had some feeding issues, that have now been resolved, but he is still underweight. i have a dietitian working with us and at first all she wanted me to feed him was high calorie foods. At first i had a hard time with that, but now i see that our first goal was to put weight on him and the healthy foods would come later.